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Secrets of improv
comedy revealed
... page 4
Hockey gets first
win of season
... page 6
AT A GLANCE 2
EDITORIAL 3
FEATURES 4
SPORTS 6
CLASSIFIEDS 11
Cutting professors'phone lines
Department looks to save money
office phones to cope
with departmental
budget cuts.
"It makes it
really difficult to get
a hold of the professors
in a quick amount of
time," Braithwaite said.
"If we know that they have
office hours it's a lot easier
to call them than it is to send
them an e-mail."
Braithwaite was hurrying to
finish his test so he could make
an appointment. Because of
a miscommunication, the
center was not able to provide
Braithwaite with scratch paper
for the essay portion of his test
and since he couldn't reach
his professor via phone, he
had to walk to her office to get
clearance. She then used her
personal cell phone to call the
testing center.
See Cut page 5
GRAPHIC BY: BRYAN BUTTERFIELD
Academic Activist gives voice to swine
warfare
Professor to help
develop strategy for
educating military to
be culturally savvy
By Chris Ripplinger
sr. news reporter I The Signpost
Weber State University anthropologist
professor Ron Holt was recently hired
by the U.S. Army as one of eight experts
nationwide to help as culture and
foreign language advisers. Two years
ago he worked with the Army, which
included a tour in eastern Afghanistan;
now, the military said they wanted him
back.
After his one-year sabbatical spent
with the Army, Holt returned to teach
at WSU and is now spending the next
two years on leave from WSU at Fort
Benning, Ga., working with military
trainers to develop a long-term strategy
for culture and foreign language
training for Army personnel.
"We're interested in what he's doing
and learning to see alternate uses
of anthropology outside of regular
academia," said WSU anthropology
professor Linda Eaton. "I think it's
been good for the students to see
anthropology used in other various
ways it could be used. It's kind of a
different take on how you deal with
cultural data."
Holt deployed to Afghanistan in
2008 as one of the Army's Human
Terrain Teams (HTT) to act as liaison
See Holt page 5
SOURCE: WSU.COM
Ron Holt, seen here training for work in
Afghanistan with the Army in 2008, has again
been called upon by the military to help develop an education plan for Army personnel.
I began to reason that, if there
are no laws to protect them,
perhaps the best methods of
saving them are going to be
illegal."
— Peter Young — - ,
PHOTO BY BRYAN BUTTERFIELD | THE SIGNPOST
Animal rights activist Peter Young speaks Wednesday afternoon in the Shepherd Union Building's Wildcat Theater. Young, who was
indicted in connection with raids on mink farms in Wisconsin, spoke strongly against the treatment of animals in slaughterhouses.
Convocation speaker Peter Young
decries treatment of animals
By Eric Jensen
managing editor I The Signpost
Animal rights activist Peter Young
told Weber State University students
Monday that the best thing they could
do to protect animals is avoid eating
animals and animal products.
Speaking as part of the Convocations
series at the Wildcat Theater, Young
also shared his experiences working
as part of the Animal Liberation Front
and spending two years in a federal
prison after being convicted of animal
enterprise terrorism.
"The best thing you could do today
is adopt a vegan diet," Young said.
"This is something that everyone in this
room can do today to save 100 innocent
animals a year. You can stop eating
meat, dairy, eggs, and that is frankly
where most animals in this society are
killed."
Young went on to say that maintaining
a diet of anything other than veganism
makes a person complicit in animal
deaths.
Young said his life as an activist began
when he adopted veganism and started
participating in legal forms of protest of
animal cruelty. When he felt he wasn't
effecting enough change, though, he
knew it was a turning point in his life.
"When I began to realize there
are very, very few laws protecting
nonhuman animals in this society,"
Young said, "I began to reason that,
if there are no laws to protect them,
perhaps the best methods of saving
them are going to be illegal."
According to Young, his first act
of illegal protest came in the form of
throwing bricks through the windows
of a Seattle butchery and painting
the words "meat is murder" on the
sidewalk. The Seattle Times covered
the event, showing Young that illegal
actions would garner more attention
than commonplace forms of protest.
Young then began visiting fur farms
on the outskirts of Seattle with the
intent of looking for ways to free the
animals kept there.
"I really feel today," Young said, "I can
say the best investment that I ever made
as an activist was to see these animals
with my own eyes. Not just to look at them
through pieces of literature, which is bad
enough, or even video, which is also very
bad, but to actually put myself where
these animals are, look them in the eye
and see what they were going through."
According to the Associated Press,
Young spent seven years hiding from
authorities and avoiding arrest after
being indicted in connection with
raids on mink farms in Wisconsin,
South Dakota and Iowa. He was later
arrested after a police officer witnessed
him attempting to steal CDs from a
cafe in San lose, Calif., a police report
referenced by AP stated.
Encouraging attendees to get
involved in the campaign to protect
animals, Young said people ought to
research if there are animal farms in
the area where they live, and how those
animals are treated.
"You will never, ever look at your town
the same way again," Young said. "You'll
never look at this society the same way
See Activist page 5

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Secrets of improv
comedy revealed
... page 4
Hockey gets first
win of season
... page 6
AT A GLANCE 2
EDITORIAL 3
FEATURES 4
SPORTS 6
CLASSIFIEDS 11
Cutting professors'phone lines
Department looks to save money
office phones to cope
with departmental
budget cuts.
"It makes it
really difficult to get
a hold of the professors
in a quick amount of
time," Braithwaite said.
"If we know that they have
office hours it's a lot easier
to call them than it is to send
them an e-mail."
Braithwaite was hurrying to
finish his test so he could make
an appointment. Because of
a miscommunication, the
center was not able to provide
Braithwaite with scratch paper
for the essay portion of his test
and since he couldn't reach
his professor via phone, he
had to walk to her office to get
clearance. She then used her
personal cell phone to call the
testing center.
See Cut page 5
GRAPHIC BY: BRYAN BUTTERFIELD
Academic Activist gives voice to swine
warfare
Professor to help
develop strategy for
educating military to
be culturally savvy
By Chris Ripplinger
sr. news reporter I The Signpost
Weber State University anthropologist
professor Ron Holt was recently hired
by the U.S. Army as one of eight experts
nationwide to help as culture and
foreign language advisers. Two years
ago he worked with the Army, which
included a tour in eastern Afghanistan;
now, the military said they wanted him
back.
After his one-year sabbatical spent
with the Army, Holt returned to teach
at WSU and is now spending the next
two years on leave from WSU at Fort
Benning, Ga., working with military
trainers to develop a long-term strategy
for culture and foreign language
training for Army personnel.
"We're interested in what he's doing
and learning to see alternate uses
of anthropology outside of regular
academia," said WSU anthropology
professor Linda Eaton. "I think it's
been good for the students to see
anthropology used in other various
ways it could be used. It's kind of a
different take on how you deal with
cultural data."
Holt deployed to Afghanistan in
2008 as one of the Army's Human
Terrain Teams (HTT) to act as liaison
See Holt page 5
SOURCE: WSU.COM
Ron Holt, seen here training for work in
Afghanistan with the Army in 2008, has again
been called upon by the military to help develop an education plan for Army personnel.
I began to reason that, if there
are no laws to protect them,
perhaps the best methods of
saving them are going to be
illegal."
— Peter Young — - ,
PHOTO BY BRYAN BUTTERFIELD | THE SIGNPOST
Animal rights activist Peter Young speaks Wednesday afternoon in the Shepherd Union Building's Wildcat Theater. Young, who was
indicted in connection with raids on mink farms in Wisconsin, spoke strongly against the treatment of animals in slaughterhouses.
Convocation speaker Peter Young
decries treatment of animals
By Eric Jensen
managing editor I The Signpost
Animal rights activist Peter Young
told Weber State University students
Monday that the best thing they could
do to protect animals is avoid eating
animals and animal products.
Speaking as part of the Convocations
series at the Wildcat Theater, Young
also shared his experiences working
as part of the Animal Liberation Front
and spending two years in a federal
prison after being convicted of animal
enterprise terrorism.
"The best thing you could do today
is adopt a vegan diet," Young said.
"This is something that everyone in this
room can do today to save 100 innocent
animals a year. You can stop eating
meat, dairy, eggs, and that is frankly
where most animals in this society are
killed."
Young went on to say that maintaining
a diet of anything other than veganism
makes a person complicit in animal
deaths.
Young said his life as an activist began
when he adopted veganism and started
participating in legal forms of protest of
animal cruelty. When he felt he wasn't
effecting enough change, though, he
knew it was a turning point in his life.
"When I began to realize there
are very, very few laws protecting
nonhuman animals in this society,"
Young said, "I began to reason that,
if there are no laws to protect them,
perhaps the best methods of saving
them are going to be illegal."
According to Young, his first act
of illegal protest came in the form of
throwing bricks through the windows
of a Seattle butchery and painting
the words "meat is murder" on the
sidewalk. The Seattle Times covered
the event, showing Young that illegal
actions would garner more attention
than commonplace forms of protest.
Young then began visiting fur farms
on the outskirts of Seattle with the
intent of looking for ways to free the
animals kept there.
"I really feel today," Young said, "I can
say the best investment that I ever made
as an activist was to see these animals
with my own eyes. Not just to look at them
through pieces of literature, which is bad
enough, or even video, which is also very
bad, but to actually put myself where
these animals are, look them in the eye
and see what they were going through."
According to the Associated Press,
Young spent seven years hiding from
authorities and avoiding arrest after
being indicted in connection with
raids on mink farms in Wisconsin,
South Dakota and Iowa. He was later
arrested after a police officer witnessed
him attempting to steal CDs from a
cafe in San lose, Calif., a police report
referenced by AP stated.
Encouraging attendees to get
involved in the campaign to protect
animals, Young said people ought to
research if there are animal farms in
the area where they live, and how those
animals are treated.
"You will never, ever look at your town
the same way again," Young said. "You'll
never look at this society the same way
See Activist page 5